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DID JOAN CRAWFORD KILL HER HUSBAND?

Life at home with legendary movie star Joan Crawford was anything but a screen dream. According to her adopted daughter Christina, it was a living nightmare.

Christina told of the violence she endured throughout her childhood in the infamous memoir , which was later turned into the movie starring Faye Dunaway. Christina, now 80, has since then recounted more vivid details of her mother’s brutality in the documentary and Joan’s troubled home life was also explored in the well-received miniseries with Jessica Lange playing Joan.

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